30 Members of Congress
Reject Anti-Palestinian Resolution
Thirty members of the House of Representatives voted against a bill which laid exclusive blame for the violence in Israeli/Palestinian clashes on the Palestinians. Each of the thirty votes against a one-sided and biased resolution was an act of principle and conscience which deserves our immediate thanks.
H.Con.Res. 426 condemns the Palestinian leadership for encouraging the violence and doing so little for so long to stop it, resulting in the senseless loss of life. It urged the Palestinian leadership to vigorously use its security forces to stop all violence.
This resolution stands in contradiction to the recent UN Security Council Resolution
1322, which condemned acts of violence, especially the use of force against Palestinians, resulting in injury and loss of human life. It called on Israel, the occupying power to abide scrupulously to its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the protection of civilian populations during time of war.
The thirty members who voted against the resolution were:
Rep. David Bonior (D-MI)
Rich Boucher (D-VA)
William Bill Clay (D-MO)
Eva Clayton (D-NC)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
John Conyers (D-MI)
John Dingell (D-MI)
Chet Edwards (D-TX)
Harold Ford (D-TN)
Wayne Gilchrest (R-MI)
William Goodling (R-PA)
Earl Hilliard (D-AL)
John Hostettler (R-IN)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Matthew Martinez (D-CA)
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
Jack Metcalf (R-WA)
James Moran (D-VA)
Ron Paul (R-TX)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Jose Serrano (D-NY)
Pete Stark (D-CA)
Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Action:
Please write or call these Representatives, especially if you are one of their constituents. Thank them for their refusal to go along with the congressional pack mentality. Express your support for international protection for Palestinians through the UN and for a resolution to the conflict in accord with international law and UN resolutions.
Please circulate this alert and ask others to write and call as well.
Write to:
Your Representative
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
You can reach any member of Congress through the Congressional Switchboard at: (202) 224-3121. You can email members of Congress through the Contacting Congress feature on the ADC website
(http://www.adc.org).
Palestine Affairs Council